Building from the source

You will need the latest version of the Go programming language.

If you already have the go1.11.1 installed, skip to Downloading The Source

If there is a newer version of go, use that instead.

Installing Go on Linux

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.11.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar xvaf go1.11.linux-amd64.tar.gz -C /usr/local/

Add go to path (consider adding this to $HOME/.bashrc)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Check go is installed

which go
go version

Installing Go on Mac OS X

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.11.1.darwin-amd64.pkg
sudo tar xvaf go1.11.1.darwin-amd64.pkg -C /usr/local/

Add go to path (consider adding this to $HOME/.bashrc)

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Check go is installed

which go
go version

Installing Aquachain RPC node on openbsd

Install git, go, build aquachain and start RPC server on 127.0.0.1:8543

su
pkg_add git
pkg_add go
exit
git clone https://gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain
cd aquachain
make
./build/bin/aquachain version

Downloading The Source

git clone https://gitlab.com/aquachain/aquachain
cd aquachain

If you are contributing, you will want to 'fork' the main repo on github, and add your fork like so, changing your-name and patch-1 to whatever you need:

git remote add fork [email protected]:yourname/aquachain.git
git remote -v # check remotes
git checkout master
git checkout -b patch-1

When done making commits, use git push fork patch-1 and either open a pull request or ask to merge.

During development on your branch there may be many commits on the master branch. You can re-synchronize by using git pull -r origin master or git rebase -i to avoid needing Merge commits.

Compiling

In the base directory of the repository, you can run a variety of 'make' targets.

When finished compiling, they are in the ./build/bin directory.

Aquachain command

make

Aquaminer command

make aquaminer

Available make targets on linux

all              aquachain-nocgo  cross            install          static
all-musl         aquaminer        devtools         lint             test
all-static       aquastrat        docker-run       musl             test-musl
aquachain        clean            generate         race             usb
   

Cross Compilation

This is how releases are made, with Docker and xgo. Here we build only amd64 targets, Windows, Linux, OSX (darwin).

xgo -out aquachain-$VERS --remote https://github.com/aquanetwork/aquachain  --branch master --pkg cmd/aquachain --targets='*/amd64' github.com/aquanetwork/aquachain`

Then zip:

for i in aquachain-$VERS-*; do zip $i.zip $i; done

Then hash:

sha256sum * | grep -v zip